Blast, corrupt, dismantle, erase : contemporary North American dystopian literature

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Label

Blast, corrupt, dismantle, erase : contemporary North American dystopian literature

Title remainder

contemporary North American dystopian literature

Statement of responsibility

Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee, editors

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• American fiction -- History and criticism
• Canadian fiction -- History and criticism
• Dystopias in literature
• Electronic books
• Literature and society
• Mexican fiction -- History and criticism
• North America -- In literature
• Utopias in literature

Language

eng

Summary

What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility. Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and the work of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson (to name a few), this book examines dystopian literature produced by North American authors between the signing of NAFTA (1994) and the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (2011). As the texts illustrate, awareness of and deep concern about perceived vulnerabilities-ends of water, oil, food, capitalism, empires, stable climates, ways of life, non-human species, and entire human civilizations-have become central to public discourseover the same period. By asking questions such as "What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?" and "What does this literature reflect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?" Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase serves to resituate dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduce a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

809/.93372

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult